This privacy policy applies to the CarsParadise website, referred to as “Website”, and all related sites, applications, services and tools where referenced in this policy and the Terms and Conditions here, regardless of how you access these.

We are committed to complying with our legal responsibilities under data protection law. We take your privacy seriously and will ensure your personal information is kept secure.

When we collect, use, share, retain or do anything else with your personal information (this is known as ‘processing’) we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and are responsible as ‘controller’ of your information.

Please read the privacy policy below carefully to get a clear understanding of how we process your personal information. By using the Websiteyou consent to your information and information about you being used as outlined below.

This notice applies to you if you are an existing user of our Website, or are about to register as user.

What is Personal Information?

Personal Information is information relating to a person who can be identified from that information, directly or indirectly, by reference to, for example,a name, address, telephone number, location data, IP address, or to any factors specific to the physical, mental, financial, physiological, cultural or social identity of that person.

What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our blog, Website or mobile application?

We collect personal information from you when youregister on our Website / application / blog, for example register your account with us, provide us information on a web form, update or add information to your account. This information may include your full name, current geo-location, IP address,current address including postcode, telephone number, email address.

We may also collect personal information from other sources, such as your Facebook or Google or other social media account, when you sign-in into our Website via these platforms. This information will include your ID or user name, your gender, your chosen language, country of origin, date of your registration with Facebook / Google, the last date of your profile update, verification of your status, your account type, logo / photograph of your profile. By associating an account managed by a social media site with your account and authorising us to have access to this information, you agree that we can collect, use and retain the information provided by these social media sites in accordance with this privacy notice. We may also use plug-ins or other technologies from various social media sites. If you click on a link provided via a social media plug in, you are voluntarily establishing a connection with that respective social media site.

We will also collect personal information when you use our Website / application, such as your buying or selling information, any other content that you generate or that relates to your account or a transaction - including financial (PayPal) information.

When do we collect information?

We collect information from visitors when they register on our site, sign-in via another social media platform, subscribe to a newsletter or enter information on our site.

How do we use your information?

We may use your personal information in the following ways:

•to improve our services

•to personalise your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are likely to be mostinterested

•to contact you regarding your account on our Website and your ability to use our Website

•to enforce our Terms and Conditions and our other policies relating to the Website

•to monitor and improve the information security of the Website and the mobile applications

With your consent, we may use your personal information to provide you with marketing via telephone calls, email, SMS or text. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any timeby contacting us here.

How long do we keep Personal Information?

We keep your Personal Information for as long as necessary to:

•provide the services to you on our Website

•comply with our legal obligations

•resolve any disputes

•prevent crime

•enforce Our policies

•improve our products

If it is not longer needed for us to retain your Personal Information, we will dispose of it in a secure manner.

Is your data secure?

We keep your Personal Information in our secure database and we protect it by using appropriate security measures to reduce the risks of loss or misuse.

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties any personally identifiable information about our users unless we provide them with advance notice. This does not include Website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our Website , conducting our business, or servicing the users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release such information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our or others' rights, property,or safety.

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

If you give us personal information about someone else, you must do so only with that person’s prior authority. You should inform them how we collect, use, disclose, and retain their personal information according to this privacy notice.

Google

Google's advertising requirements can be summed up by Google's Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below or using the contact form here.

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1. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of data, particularly text files stored on the end devices that we use when browsing internet websites. They are sent by our website to the internet browser which sends them back with subsequent entries on a particular website. These files enable the recognition of the user’s device in order to appropriately adjust for them the website that they are viewing.

2. What do we use cookies for?

Thanks to cookies we are able to adjust the website to the user’s needs and optimise the use of our website. Moreover, we also use them amongst other reasons, to remember user’s preferences, provide safety and remember the choices made by the user. Thanks to them we can understand how our website is used by you, which enables us to constantly improve its contents.

3. Which cookies do we use?

Because of the fact that for some time cookies will be stored on the user’s end device, they can be divided into "session" and "persistent" ones. A session cookie, also known as a“temp cookie”, stays there only while the user navigates the website, i.e. for the time of a “session” and is deleted after it is finished, i.e. after you log off or close the browser. Persistent cookies stay on the device after the browser has been closed for a fixed period of time or for an unspecified period of time depending by their settings by the website user or until they are deleted.

Types of cookiesas per their indispensability for service provision

Essential- files that are essential for the website to work properly if they are not present, certain site functions might not be available.

Functional-this type of files enable us to remember user-selected options, for example the way that the product list is given. They enrich the website functionality and thanks to them a website is adjusted for the user’s preference.

Business -enable realisation of the business model that the website is based upon.

Types of Cookies as per their purpose

Setting - they allow to change the functions and website behaviour.

Safety - they are used to verify the authenticity of the user and to protect the user’s details against unauthorised persons.

Processes - they enable the website and its functions to work properly.

Ads - they make ads available and let us personalise the ads for particular users.

Session state - they store the details of how our website is used by you. Amongst other things, they are connected with the error reports or the websites most frequently visited.

4. Double click Cookies

Google AdSense is the outside ad provider on our website. The cookies are used to match the ads topic with the user’s interests and to show them based on the previous visits on our, or other websites. Users can find relating information on subject as well as opt-out from using DoubleClick Cookies here. Unless you opt-out from displaying the outside companies’ ads, other providers’ or ad networks’ cookies will be used to show ads on our website.

5. Do cookies contain personal details?

Personal details collected based on cookies may only be collected to perform certain functions for the user. This data is encrypted in a way that makes it impossible for unauthorised persons to access it.

6. Facilitating and depositing of the processed data.

a)The data is made available to outside subjects only within the lawfully allowed boundaries.

b)The data that would allow identifying an individual is made available only upon this person’s consent.

c)The Operator might be under obligation to provide the data collected by the website to some authorities based upon their lawful requests in the capacity resulting from that request.

7. Server logs.

a) Information relating to some of the user’s behaviour is server logged. This data is used purely for website administration and to provide the smoothest possible hosting services.

b) The data viewed is identified by URL addresses. The following may be recorded:

1. time the question arrives,

2. time the answer is sent,

3. client station’s name – HTTP protocol carried identification,

4. HTTP transaction error information,

5. URL address of the site previously visited by the user (referrer link) – when the access to the website has been through a hyperlink,

6. user’s browser details,

7. IP details.

c) The above is not matched to particular persons viewing the sites.

d) The above data is not used purely for server administration purposes.

8. Deleting cookies.

Cookies may be deleted by the user utilising the browser options. The details are available in the browser’s settings. The user can block automatic cookies service or may be informed that they are sent to his end device. Some of the functions available on our site are made possible only through cookies and blocking or limiting cookies may negatively affect some of the functions available on the website.

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